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mass noun a noun (as sand or water ) that characteristically denotes in many languages a homogeneous substance or a concept without subdivisions and that in English is preceded in indefinite singular constructions by some rather than a or an 1: What is an indefinite singular construction?...

Thank you, Eimai_Anglos. Are you saying a genitive cannot be made a countable noun or used as a countable noun? I think a guru has delivered expert advice on that aspect of grammar and I think it has been said a construction like "a shaking of a ground" means "an instance of shaking of a...

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. ...

Zj.frank wrote: Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes...

Hello Paco First, I should answer your previous question about the 'emphatic forms with no reasonable normal form'. My thought here is that it's perfectly idiomatic to say: 'You are too good a cook to sack.' —which looks like the same construction as 'this is too tough a question to...

Well, let me see if I can attack your concerns in a sort of slap-dash fashion. First, let me collect our sentences: 1: She is a too clever woman to stay in so boring a job. 1a: She is too clever a woman to stay in so boring a job. 2: She is too clever a woman to stay in such a boring job. ...

Hello Taka We can say: 1. 'He's no friend of mine.' 2. 'That friend of yours is very strange.' 3. 'He's a friend of theirs.' 4. 'Friends of ours are coming over tonight.' 5. 'Luckily, some friends of his were passing at the time.' But I can't think of an example where the definite...